Template:Country data Ireland

Template documentation

Template:Country data Ireland is an internal data container not intended to be transcluded directly. It is used indirectly by templates such as flag, flagicon, and others.

Standard parameters

Parameter name	Value	Meaning
alias	Republic of Ireland	Main article name (Republic of Ireland)
shortname alias	Ireland	(optional) Display name to be used for the wikilink, if alias is a disambiguated article name, for example
flag alias	Flag of Ireland.svg	Image name (File:Flag of Ireland.svg, shown on right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
1783		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg
1937		Flag of Ireland (WFB 2000).png
2004		Flag of Ireland (WFB 2004).gif
green		Green harp flag of Ireland.svg
4prov		Four Provinces Flag.svg
football		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg
rugby union		IRFU flag.svg
hockey		Flag of Ireland hockey team.svg
cricket		Cricket Ireland flag.svg
air force		Flag of the Irish Air Corps.svg
army		Flag of the Irish Defence Forces.svg

Military ensigns

This nation's naval ensign is the same as its national flag, so Template:Navy produces the following:

• {{navy|Ireland}} → Irish Naval Service

This template includes an air force ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Air force:

• {{air force|Ireland}} → Irish Air Corps
• {{flagicon|Ireland|air force}} →

This template includes an army ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Army:

• {{army|Ireland}} → Irish Army
• {{flagicon|Ireland|army}} →

Redirect aliases

This template can also be used via an alias name (implemented as a redirect to this template):

Alias name	{{flag|alias}} output	{{flagcountry|alias}} output
IRE (view)	Template:Country data IRE	Template:Country data IRE
EIR (view)	Template:Country data EIR	Template:Country data EIR

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{flag|Ireland}} → Ireland
• {{flagicon|Ireland}} →
• {{flagcountry|Ireland}} → Ireland

Using a flag variant

• {{flag|Ireland|1783}} → Ireland
• {{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{flagicon|IRE}} → Template:Country data IRE
• {{flagcountry|IRE}} → Template:Country data IRE
• {{flag|IRE}} → Template:Country data IRE

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data Republic of IrelandTemplate:Country data Republic of Ireland
• Template:Country data Southern IrelandTemplate:Country data Southern Ireland
• Template:Country data Kingdom of IrelandTemplate:Country data Kingdom of Ireland
• Template:Country data Lordship of IrelandTemplate:Country data Lordship of Ireland
• Template:Country data Irish Free StateTemplate:Country data Irish Free State

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

TemplateData for Country data Ireland

<templatedata> {

 "description": "This template should not be used directly. It is used indirectly by flag templates such as Template:Flag and Template:Flagicon. See Category:Flag template system for a full list of flag templates and Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for further documentation.",
 "params": {}

} </templatedata>